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Using Unconscious Learning to promote Health and Well being
By Jaime V. Pitner, MICP, RHC

Your mind is much like a computer, what you experience shows up on the monitor of your consciousness, without a thought of where it came from. But, like your computer, much work happens behind the scenes, processes, programs, electrical pathways of information and direction, and the vast storage of memory.

You may think that you have one mind, but you actually have two, or perhaps better put, you have two parts of one mind: the conscious and the unconscious. The conscious mind, like the computer monitor, allows you to experience what’s going on, gives you choices, and brings awareness, allows you to interact.

How Earnie created diabetes from anxiety

Fear, worry and anxiety can seriously affect your health, and in time even kill you. People can and do develop all sorts of health problems by fixating their minds on ideas that make them feel powerless.

Recently I met a man – let’s call him Ernie - who knew nothing about hypnosis, yet he had been using it unknowingly and successfully … to slowly start digging a grave for himself. While attending university, Ernie woke up one night panic stricken at the thought of forthcoming exams and due to extreme anxiety, he couldn’t breathe. Now he wasn’t just afraid of the exams, he was afraid of choking, he was afraid of dying. His became obsessed with the question - what if he stops breathing and dies.

His once great health began to deteriorate and constant worries led to high blood pressure, ulcers, diabetes and assortment of other health problems. it came to the point that doctors couldn’t prescribe medications to make him feel much better because medications for one health problem would jeopardize the other. His income was suffering because instead of focusing on the work he needed to do, his mind was preoccupied with ever growing number of worries related to his survival.

Until just a few years ago, doctors believed that the brain stopped making new neural connections - meaning that the memory began to get irreversibly worse - when the body stopped developing, usually in the early 20s. And doctors knew that, like any other part of the body, neurons weaken as people age. Loss of brain function due to neural breakdown was assumed to be a normal, unavoidable part of aging. It turns out they were wrong.

In the past few years, it has become clear that you can, in fact, make new neurons starting in your 20s and continuing well into old age. You can literally rewire the brain with new parts as the older parts wear out. How?

There are lots of things you can do right now to preserve, protect and enhance your gray matter.

It’s been dismissed as a bag of tricks. Nothing more than mere entertainment, but many people seek it as a cure for a lot of different things: Chronic pain, addictions, bad habits…some athletes even use it to get out of slumps.

Fox 21’s Christina Salvo underwent several weeks of hypnosis to see if it could cure her of her phobia of snakes.

Q: Dr. Neuger “So what are your goals for today or for our time together Christina? What do you hope to accomplish?

Relaxation should not be last on the to-do list.  Relaxation is a vital process that decreases wear and tear on the mind and body.

Refueling through relaxing can reduce the heart rate, lower blood pressure, increase blood flow to major muscles, reduce muscle tension, reduce headache and back pain, improve concentration and reduce emotional responses such as anger and frustration.

How to relax?